Two museums in Charleville-Mézières, closed due to the health crisis, exhibit since Friday and until Saturday some of their works in the premises of a commercial gallery of the Intermarché de Mohon.
“For months, our only relationship with art has been through the screen of a computer or a TV.
We have chosen to travel where we find the public.
Our museums are closed, so let's exhibit elsewhere, ”
Boris Ravignon, the mayor of the city, told AFP.
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“The Covid was lucky!
"
Marquet-Morelle, director of the Musée de l'Ardenne.
Among the pieces offered by the Musée de l'Ardenne and the Musée Rimbaud to this public in the working-class district of Ronde-Couture, there is a pistol dating from the 18th century, coming from the old arms factory of Charleville-Mézières and shipped to America by La Fayette himself.
You can also admire a piece of the Berlin Wall decorated with a portrait of Rimbaud.
"The Covid was lucky!"
, says Carole Marquet-Morelle, director of the Musée de l'Ardenne.
“The museums are closed, we have enough staff to implement an old idea: to conquer new audiences,”
she says.
Evelyne, 66, has just finished shopping with her husband Patrick.
Also questioned, she applauds with both hands
“this way of democratizing art in a complicated period”
.
